4. The letter must refer solely to the private affairs of the
soldier or seaman.
All the foregoing descriptions must be fully written in the address in
the following form, the initials of the name of any ships or regiments
being insufficient:--
[Sidenote: Address.]
+---------------------------------------------+
| Seaman. |
+---------------------------------------------+
| From A. B.--Seaman of |
| H.M.S.____________ |
| |
|(<i>Here insert direction of the letter</i>.)|
| |
| C. D., Captain (<i>or other commanding |
| Officer</i>) |
| H.M.S.____________ |
+---------------------------------------------+
| To A. B., Seaman, |
| H.M.S.____________ |
| |
| (<i>Here the direction to be finished</i>.) |
+---------------------------------------------+
+---------------------------------------------+
| Soldier. |
+---------------------------------------------+
| From A. B., Sergeant, |
| ____Regiment________ |
| |
|(<i>Here insert direction of the letter</i>.)|
| |
| C. D., Colonel(<i>or other commanding |
| Officer</i>) |
| ____Regiment________ |
+---------------------------------------------+
| To A. B., Private (<i>Serg. or Corp'l</i>) |
| ____Regiment________ |
| |
| (<i>Here the direction to be finished</i>.) |
+---------------------------------------------+
[Sidenote: Subject to pre-payment of foreign transit rates.]
Letters for soldiers or seamen may be forwarded at the above rate to or
through any country requiring the payment of any foreign or transit
rate, but subject to the payment of such foreign or transit rate, as may
be chargeable thereon.
[Sidenote: Re-direction.]
Soldiers and seamens letters are not liable to any additional rate on
re-direction.
[Sidenote: Conveyance.]
All soldiers' and seamens' letters are conveyed between Canada and the
United Kingdom by the Canadian line of steamers.
[Sidenote: Letters for commissioned officers, &c.]
Letters sent to or by commissioned or warrant officers, midshipmen or
master's mates, engineers in the navy, captain's clerks or first-class
schoolmasters, or commissioned or warrant officers in the army, are not
included in the privilege attached to letters of soldiers and seamen,
but are chargeable with the same rates as ordinary letters.
[Sidenote: Letters posted without compliance with regulations.]
Soldiers and seamens letters posted in Canada without a compliance with
the above regulations are liable to full postage. If posted in accordance
with the above regulations but without pre-payment of 2 cents they are
liable to a charge of 2d. sterling on delivery in the United Kingdom.
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